Flesh glass & wax

George Finlay Ramsay

An ongoing film and performance project charting three years of a southern Italian bloodletting rite, and one family’s process of mourning, this is psychedelic ethnography that grapples with love, doubt and religious devotion in the 21st century.

Road Enraptured

Nathaniel Kochan

Meditation and the autobahn, speed and consciousness, caffeinated pupils and motorway churches. An artist film by Nathaniel Kochan looking at the role of long distance driving in our society and the motorway churches of southern Bavaria. 'Road rapture' is a multi-dimensional exploration of the motorway, the physical network integeral for supporting society. Constructed as a car journey between churches built for Bavarian Autobahn users, it attempts to unravel how spaces order our personal experiences and through the cinematic lexicon reveal the psychic reality manifested in the motorway environment.  

Dazzeldark

Mark Leckey

Commisioned by Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK for the group show 'In the Offing'

My One demand

Blast Theory

To walk in a city is to be among strangers, freed from everyday expectations, liberated to luxuriate in your own thoughts. By the very act of moving you are thinking, you are shedding skins and finding more of yourself than you knew was previously there.

Over the course of a single sunset, as the shadows lengthen, My One Demand takes a slice through Toronto.

Starting with a baby in the arms of a woman walking out of Toronto General Hospital, we follow seven people – one at a time – as they move through the city as darkness falls. Each of the people we follow is older than the person before. Each person is very different from the next. As each person walks on, our narrator Maggie tells us about them and about herself, about the city here and those farthest away.

This single 90 minute continuous shot was streamed live online and to the Toronto International Film Festival cinema in June 2015. Viewers interacted in real time on their mobile phones in the cinema or on their computers from anywhere.

I am town

Feature Documentary (additional photography) / Director Mischa Richter / DoP Richard Stewart

A meditative portrait of Provincetown and its unique residents, a free spirited community Mischas artist family has called home for nearly 100 years—through conversations with its resilient and at times eccentric inhabitants, from pilgrims and fishermen to drag queens and spirit guides. Shot on 35mm.

Premiering at Doc Fortnights MoMa 2020